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Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.


Joan Halifax

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JOAN HICKSON You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost ha...
JOAN BAEZ Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was...
JOAN ALLEN The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
JOAN MIRO When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important tha...
JOAN ARMATRADING When I first met Antonin Scalia, I was a small child with one brown ponytail atop my head. Which is ...
JOAN LARSEN And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your record...
JOAN JETT Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the...
JOAN BLADES You can take charge, kick ass, do whatever you have to do and it's okay. You can blow people up....
JOAN SEVERANCE Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.
JOAN DIDION My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.
JOAN BAUER I think that in our society we should do everything to encourage child-bearing and family-making. An...
JOAN LUNDEN We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to ...
JOAN BLADES What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.
JOAN MIRó Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.
JOAN RIVERS Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only questio...
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